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95 de votre influence : To use your influence.

Notice—User quelquechose, to use, or make use of, a thing ; User quelquechose, to wear out a thing; Ce drap est d'un bon u er, this cloth wears well ; On use beaucoup de

ortîr fT ^- ""f'^""' th^y consume a great deal of coals in this house. User, from I.OW Lat. mare, derived from mus, p. p. of uti. (A denvative of usare is minim, to have the use of, in several Mediasval Latin documents, whence verbal substantive mina, which cenTurv f^f water-power, in an eleventhcentury text; whence it cornes to mean later, any factory dnven by water ; then a factory

OS «f^ ««f^, generally.) Brachet Etym. Dict.

95 17-Quil ne s'en prenne qu'à lui ... f They must

selves'^ °" ^"y^'^'^y

95 23-Rieti ne saurait nous intimider : Nothing can possibly . . Notice that savoir in the sensé of pouvoir is m the conditional only, and with the signification of the présent tense.

Fa^e line 25— Faire grâce : To pardon. Notice.— Faites-moi la ^ grâce de lui écrire, do me the favour to write

to him ; Il m'aurait fait grâce des trois quarts de son histoire s'il eût supprimé les circonstances inutiles, he would have spared me three-fourths of his history had he suppressed ail the trivial circumstances ; J'ai réussi, grâce à vous, I succeeded, thanks to you.

96 2—11 n'y manque que votre signature : Your signature alone is wanting. Notice manquer de and manquer à before an infinitive. Il a manqué à remplir ses devoirs, he failed to fulfil his duties ; Je ne manquerai pas d'écrire, I shall not fail (forget, omit) to write ; J'ai manqué de tomber, I was very near falling.

96 8— Ravir à : To take away from, to deprive. Italian rapire, from Lat. rapere. Ravir means also to enrapture. Notice. — ^J 'étais dans le ravissement, I was in raptures ; Elle chante à ravir, she sings delightfuUy, to admiration.

96 15— Tout haut : Openly.

07 II— Il n'y a pas de quoi: There is no reason for it (don't mention it). See Hachette's Formes Idiomatiques Comparées," chap. ii., phrase 80.